Identifying the Potential for Creating New Apprenticeships in Your Region
In our previous piece, we demonstrated the research we have undertaken to identify all occupations in the labour market that have “apprenticeship potential”, and then…
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Broadening Apprenticeship Provision Beyond Traditional Occupations
When the Government set a target of creating 3 million apprenticeships by 2020, one thing was immediately clear: they were never going to hit that…
The Keys to Successful Business Development in 2017
Going into 2017, organisations in the Further Education and Independent Training Provider sectors will have their own “New Year’s resolutions” to achieve their goals and…
The Key Role of Local Labour Market Insight in the Government’s Prison Reforms
One of the main pledges in the Government’s recent Prison Safety and Reform White Paper (which FE News reported on here), is to give greater empowerment…
Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration: Reflections from AoC 2016
If I had to pick out a grand narrative from this year’s AoC conference, I would say it was the emphasis on collaboration — especially…
Area reviews? Which area?
The announcement in July by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Bis) that the Government is to set up area reviews will have come…
Getting the right people through the right training into the right jobs
Imagine the following scenario. You have a boy of 15 who doesn’t really know what he wants to do with his life. He likes working…
Connecting school leavers and employers
Karen Adriaanse, author of the Ofsted report Going in the right direction? Careers guidance in schools from September 2012, has recently spoken out about the…